THE HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. NAPIER, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 41, 10 April 1862, Page 2

THE HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. NAPIER, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862.

By the Pole Star we have Auckland news to the 4th instant. The Superintendent and Provincial Council have latterly been continually differing, and the Council have gone to the extreme measure of addressing the Governor for the removal from office of the Superintendent, a step we suppose the Governor is not likely to consent to, without more valid reasons shewn than any we have noticed in the present instance. A dissolution of the Provincial Council is most probable.

James Sanderson, private in the Royal Engineers, has been committed for trial before the Supreme Court at Auckland on a charge of selling twenty rounds of ball cartridge and percussion caps to the Maories, at Pokeno (on the Waikato road), in February last.

The citizens of Auckland have entertained the captains of the American whalers in harbour at a public banquet, said to have been attended by “ one of the largest assemblages of gentlemen that ever crowded the festive board” in that city. His Excellency the Governor had been to Coromandel, endeavoring personally to settle the difficulties that have hitherto prevented the exploration and prospecting of portions of the district. [This refers to the fact that a large territory, claimed by Paul and his tribe, known to be auriferous, was exempted from the operations of the miners, when the rest of the district was thrown open.— Ed.] The Southern Cross of the 28th ult. says, “We understand arrangements to open Paul’s land are nearly completed.” We extract an article from the same journal. There is every probability that the effect of these accounts will be a rush from Otago to the North, and possibly an immediate solution of the native difficulty in a manner not intended by Sir G. Grey; for although a few diggers may be kept off a tract of ground known to be “auriferous only,” we believe the task will be beyond the power of Government, when a large influx of adventurers, such as may be expected, discover that the object of their search is under a tapu. The news from the South is not important. The approach of winter had much diminished the yield of gold, only 7,324 ozs. being brought to Dunedin by the last escort.